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 Send "John Hiatt" Ringtones to your Cell  (No More) Dancing In The Street Out in the street They're tryin' to arrest my friend They put him on ice now twice But he's back again Well he did that .... After All This Time After all this time I'm glad your loving me 'Cause after all this time So many disagree To turn off the lights Or pull down .... All The Lilacs In Ohio Well, you met her there on a New York City stair You were throwing up on your shoes Tryin' to write the great book when .... Alone In The Dark It's a lonely picture Of an empty glass It's a still life study Of a drunken ass And he howls at the moon Hoping the .... Angel It is a hurtin' thing you don't wanna talk about it Pain in your heart well it's takin' your breath away You left it in .... Back Of My Mind Well my daddy he stood at the foot of the stairs He was calling to me at the time And I knew even then, I .... Back To Normal Naturally I heard the doctor say Cut the cord and give the child away So you had him over for dinner Carving beans with a .... Back To The War You're different from me All the boundaries are defined If we keep up with these truces One of will lose their mind And I consciously .... Before I Go I've been sleeping for some hours Just woke up and you were there Like the morning, like the flowers Sunlight whispering in my ears Red .... Blue Telescope I've got a blue telescope, I'm looking at the world tonight Through a blue telescope; I wish I may, I wish I might Not see .... Bring Back Your Love To Me Darling if you've been a hurting I don't care what it is I wanna help for certain, but it takes more than a kiss All .... Buffalo River Home I've been taking off and landing but this airport's closed And how much thicker this fog is gonna get god only knows Just when you .... Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder She has the wind as a witness She has feelings that fly by night She believes in forgiveness But it's not love if it holds .... Come Home To You There's a mad little kid at the top of the stair And his eyes, they gather no lie Well, his mom and his dad, they're .... Copy Party Down on the beat They're lining up everyone Who's got a mind on a bullet and a mouth like a gun Boys and girls Stripped .... Cross My Fingers Baby when I put my mind to it I slip into another gear And I travel in another syncopation When all I wanna be is .... Crossing Muddy Waters My baby's gone and I don't know why She let out this morning Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky Left .... Cry Love A moment of steel A dry-eyed house Did he say goodbye to you Or did you kick him out I know you're not afraid To .... Distance You are the beautiful lover My Lover I am the distant shore So far away There is so much to uncover Love's hiding What is .... Doll Hospital Well, lots of little pieces make up the little girl Such a tiny thing in this great big world Well, now I've got to find .... Down Home The driver says it's gettin' late But I know that he's lyin' I got me no important dates My, how time is flyin' CHORUS: Well .... Down In Front I spend so much time tryin' To learn all your languages I got nothin' to say It's all cheap talk in kind And a matter .... Drive South I didn't say we wouldn't hurt anymore That's how you learn, you just get burned But we don't have to feel like dirt anymore Though .... Dust Down A Country Road Could not get to sleep It was on my wedding night I was tangled in the sheets And I was dreaming of a light Pouring .... Ethylene I'm sitting on the toilet With my sunglasses on Wondering what you are up to This hotel's got bathroom telephones But I don't want to .... Everybody Went Low Well the prize was right there underneath our eyeballs And when it all came down we were looking for the pitfalls Until Junie said baby .... Face The Nation My mind is finally clearing What is this sound I'm hearing? Chainsaws on bone and gristle Carving out a new epistle I've got my pencil .... Far As We Go Broken love out on the highway I thought I knew you like the back of my hand Pick him up, he's just a ghost from .... Farther Stars Friends of mine they don't hear Clocks ticking all around their ears They don't expect a thing Bridges moving while the river sings CHORUS: Long .... Feelin' Again I thought I had to cut off from my head down to my toes But heaven knows that I was wrong, I'm feeling again Holding .... Feels Like Rain Down here the river meets the sea And in the sticky heat I feel ya' open up to me Love comes out of nowhere baby, .... Forever Yours These days it's hard to have fun Looking for a little girl, a little undone By the progress of man By the touch of a .... Friend Of Mine Friend of mine Has gone away Like a light from yesterday Lost in space Somewhere they say This friend of mine He could sing Like .... Full Moon There's a wind inside my soul, Burnin' secrets in the cold. My spirit rages. And the faces in my field, Only flesh made out of .... Georgia Rae I know a girl, mess with your mind, She'll come to you in the summer sometime She'll talk about things you don't understand, But you .... Getting Excited Just a basement party with some high school friends Boys touching girls, like they did back then But that fat boy you invited He's getting .... God's Golden Eye We came through the forrest Of jealousy and greed All our loved ones before us Gave us everything we need To cross that great river .... Gone Gone like my last paycheck gone gone away Gone like the car I wrecked gone gone away Gone like a fifth of gin gone gone .... Good As She Could Be Well she was a millionaire Before she was fourteen But there was an emptiness there That to practically everyone else could be seen She hit .... Good Girl, Bad World Put your make up on Though your face is long Clothes that fit you wrong What's wrong with you Last night's Romeo He just had .... Graduated I used to stumble up to your door Three thousand kisses on the living room floor But we don't do that kind of thing anymore .... Hangin' Around The Observatory Hangin' around the observatory. We were waitin' to see the moon. Well we thought that we was all gypsies, Come to escape these lousy ruins. .... Hangin' Round Here If I could go back to love's first blush Oh my lordy it would be a big rush But I know you can't go back .... Have A Little Fait In Me When the road gets dark And you can no longer see Just let my love throw a spark And have a little faith in me .... Have A Little Faith In Me I dreamed I did a good job and I got well paid Blew it all at the penny arcade A hundred dollars on a kewpie .... I Can't Wait Tonight I'm howling at a foreign moon Might as well be a junkie's spoon For all the light it's given me Sinking in my misery .... I Could Use An Angel Who tipped you off How could she betray me These hungry fingers They found us guilty for love And she said her lips were sealed .... I Got A Gun She took some blood and tears From an old fruit jar She rubbed it on her belly Where he left his scars She's such a .... I Killed An Ant With My Guitar I killed an ant With my guitar Underneath romantic Indiana stars He was a fool I was so cruel The power of music is no .... I Know A Place I know a place Where the dogs ain't barking I know a place Where the sun don't shine I know a place Where the gosts .... I Look For Love Why did she wear that dress tonight Why did she bring that stranger She looks put out in the party lights Which leaves us all .... I Spy (For The Fbi) I spy for the FBI (I spy for the FBI) I spy for the FBI (I spy for the FBI) I got an x-ray camera .... I Want Your Love Inside Of Me Unlock these chains and let me out I want the love you're talkin' about I want a job, I wanna care I want to find .... I'll Never Get Over You I would have thought time would erase I'll never get over you The feeling's lost in your embrace I'll never get over you But still .... I'm A Real Man I'm a real man, I got a real guitar I'm a real man, don't even know where the boys are I don't want to frighten .... I'm Tired Of Your Stuff You been slippin' around a bit You been sayin' things that just don't fit You been handin' me the same old line About the proper .... Icy Blue Heart She came onto him like a slow movin' cold front His beer was warmer than the look in her eyes She sat on a stool, .... Is Anybody There? Well I'm out here on my own Followin' a star Asking on my knees, for some direction, please, And, God, you know that's hard Cause .... It Hasn't Happened Yet You said that I would be sorry if you went away You said I wouldn't be happy without hell to pay You said the teardrops .... It'll Come To You That girl you were seein' back in '72 Somethin' 'bout a hotel room and bath water in your shoes Were you into your Catholic thing .... It's All Right With Me Spend my money but love me honey. Break my heart but be my girl. I just want you to be there when I come home. .... Learning How To Love You I'm 34 years old now And I've come to you Baby I don't even know how I got through From the first kiss in the .... Let It Slip Away I like to party with my peeps, cruzins' great, Playing 3 car monty on these crazy streets. Strait hustler, Pull a scam in a minute. .... Lift Up Every Stone CHORUS: You gotta lift up every stone now sister Gotta lift up every stone now sister Gotta lift up every stone now sister Gotta clear .... Lincoln Town What I feel is like an old freight train Five miles long in the pouring rain Rolling out of Detroit loaded up with shiny cars .... Lipstick Sunset There's a lipstick sunset Smeared across the August sky There's a bitter sweet perfume Hanging in the fields The creek is running high And I .... Listening To Old Voices They have come to haunt the children They have come to walk the wind I can hear them as they rustle through the trees Looking .... Little Blue Song For You Get your shoes on. Shoe them blues on. Get that full moon out of your eyes. You're the river. Girl you live here, With the .... Little Head I'm dirty as a man hole cover I'm lookin for my long lost lover She turned me out and now I'm sinkin' I'm just so .... Living A Little, Laughing A Little Laugh everyone at the clown He's the best one in town, Ummm ummm Ride on his merry-go-round Spinning faster than sound Uuuuh huh Uuuuh huh .... Long Night 3 on a fever, down in the dumps the 1st one hollers, the 2nd one jumps the 3rd writes a letter to his family says .... Loving A Hurricane You answer questions like a natural disaster Voices in the wind- you let em call her out The whole foundation just went flying past her .... Madonna Road Ohs, yeahs, and ai ya yas Verse 1: Oh girl, yeah, yeah, yeah He says you almost need a bodyguard Just to go walking down .... Marianne Oh, Marianne Please don't marry that insurance man I just saw your picture in the paper Surrounded by extensive wedding plans Tell me this is .... Maybe Baby, Say You Do Baby, baby do you love me baby? Are you thinkin' of me baby, baby? Maybe baby, say you do! Baby, will you be my honey .... Memphis In The Meantime I got something to say little girl You might not like my style But we've been hanging around this town Just a little too long .... Mile High I wouldn't trade your sweetness For all the sugar in the world Girl, and I know you'll always be The sweetest part of me These .... Motorboat To Heaven You bring out the fool in me The blind man at the bar Who whistles for his drink and his cane And shows everyone his .... Mr. Stanley Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son Now he's gone I ain't got no one Daddy .... My Edge Of The Razor We've been training Now we look like each other Face down and Booked and printed for young lovers Even as I write out of this .... My Old Friend I thought we were gonna make that bridge, what did I know Me and my expectations was always high Like a Rolling Stone is playing .... My Sweet Girl My sweet girl with you eyes so bright Don't leave me in the dark tonight The sun's turned down, the moon is low And I .... Native Son You finally found the mainstream In the middle of your life You tapped into a vein Of endless gold chains Now you're locked up tight .... New Numbers Stand before it to the nines Hurry up and get in line They've got your ashes scattered Before you even burn Blasting off for baby .... Number One Honest Game Well the Ace of Spades, walkin' on the water The joker's only daughter, in love with the king of hearts Ooooh and the Jack of .... Ocean I am the west wind. I am the sea gull. I dance on the waves, As they break on the shore line. The moon is .... Old Habits When the snake of love Starts pulling you under And it wont let go 'Til it starts to thunder And there's not a cloud in .... One Kiss You look just like Mona Lisa, baby Have you got something up your sleeve? You got your arms folded and your legs propped up Oh, .... One More Time Mama's in the bathroom Waitin' to be saved Papa's in the bedroom Just diggin' up his grave Brother's in the kitchen Playin' with a knife .... Only The Song Survives I woke her up twice in the middle of the night To ask what her name is and where she might live To ask how .... Overcoats Well I wandered in To the house of mirrors With a camera and an old shotgun I was taking some pictures Of me and my .... Overnight Story They took enough of my mind To make a calculator Addin' up the figures, they'll find That love's a dumbwaiter Waitin' for the dream to .... Paper Thin I was gonna get up off that bar stool Just as soon as I could figure it out Why I was overlooked at the car .... Perfectly Good Guitar He threw one down from the top of the stairs Beautiful women were standing everywhere They all got wet when he smashed that thing But .... Permanent Hurt What is that fallin' out of your eyes What is that rollin' on down your shit Thunder and lightning from the bloodshot skies This time .... Pink Bedroom She paints her fingernails forbidden tones She wants nervous youth on the telephone He don't call She sticks another pin In her doll And puts .... Pirate Radio Well, those electric sheep to the valley they keep walkin On the radio waves selling tennis shoes and beer It induces sleep when that DJ .... Radio Girl Get in your car and go Dependin' on how you feel Turn up your radio DJ says the love is real He thinks it's the .... Real Fine Love Well I never went to college, babe I did not have the luck Rolled out of Indiana in the back of a pickup truck With .... Ride Along You get up in the morning You get on the bus You don't think about nothing You don't raise no fuss You come home in .... Riding With The King A moment of steel, a dry eyed house Did he say goodbye to you, or did you kick him out I know you're not afraid .... Rock Back Billy Get a load of that guy With the dew rag on And the cowboy tie Man that cat is gone Form Memphis to Nashville Then .... Rock Of Your Love It ain't like I'm so tough You shook me to the heart You shook me sure enough Turned my whole world upside down I tried .... Rose Rose puts on her stockings and she lights a cigarette. Holds her tired face up to the mirror. She sees a younger woman there she .... Runaway On the outside, a beautiful thing On the inside, a bird with a broken wing Chances taken, now the dark angels circle in the wind .... Sail Away So now it's up to you If I should stay or go Though I've had no thought of leavin' You ask if it hurts me .... Seven Little Indians There were seven little Indians Living in a brick house on Central Avenue Gathered 'round their daddy Tellin' stories in the living room From a .... Sharon's Got A Drugstore Sharon's got a drugstore, in her bathroom She loves you all right, she loves you all right Get between the false eyelashes Better kiss her .... She Said The Same Things To Me You know she talks like ev'rybody in the room Was gonna listen in Carries on a conversation Like some others call their children in Tho .... Shredding The Document Oh what have you done with your life Oh please don't tell me Just shut up and go to work Cause you're interrupting me I .... Slow Turning When I was a boy, I thought it just came to you But I never could tell what's mine So it didn't matter anyway My .... Slug Line I went to the marketplace They said they liked my face Better than a digital watch You got it, we're pros and we can spot .... Smiling In The Rain The fallen angel shivers underneath the August moon The lady of the house goes up in ashes He crawled out through the future but the .... Some Fun Now Now your private life Is in the public domain And your one true love is just a lipstick stain And your point of view Is .... Something Broken There's something broken in my heart Oh it was nothing you done There's something broken in my heart I guess that's just the way it .... Something Happens I get jumpy Wanna step on the gas Drive right out of this place fast She says, Red light I'll take those keys Out of .... Something Wild Sometimes I don't even move a muscle Baby when you lie awake at night I think I've got nine lives in these corpuscles Girl, you .... Sometime Other Than Now Maybe your mama didn't treat you right, Maybe her intentions weren't even very good Maybe my daddy lay awake at night Imagining himself in some .... Stolen Moments I used to drink a lot in those days you see Ya, that's the way the wind blows These days the only bar I ever .... Stood Up I stood up for the first time When I was just eleven months old And ever since that day, my mama said I never done .... Straight Outta Time Hot summer night, I was counting all the starlight on your skin Airtight, as I watched you breathing out, I'm breathing in By the lake, .... String Pull Job Bring it in tight and cut to her face Fade up the lights 'till it wipes out the place Put on your pants cause she's .... Sure As I'm Sittin' Here Get up; ya get down. Get lost and then ya get found. Sure as I'm sittin' here, Sure as I'm sittin' here. Ya get a .... Sure Pinocchio You told me you'd hold me Now I know better All you did fold me honey Like a dear John letter You put me in .... Take It Back Take back all those kisses that you stole from me Take back mister and misses to your family Can't take broken dishes when we fight .... Take It Down Take everything that we have Take it and burn it to the ground Some things were never meant to last CHORUS: Take it down, down, .... Take Off Your Uniform You've been a good girl You've been a bad girl You're not a girl anymore Deep in a picture show Unbuttoned in the last row .... Tennessee Plates I woke up in a hotel and, didn't know what to do I turned the TV on, wrote a letter to you The news was .... Thank You Girl You're a little on the thin side But that's alright You stood by me baby When I didn't think we'd ever see daylight Rolled out .... The Crush First time I laid eyes on you I checked myself right on outta this world Just one thing can bring me back from this here .... The Lady Of The Night Oh the moon hangs down Like some old evening gown Forgotten by some lovely southern maiden Oh the stars are her tears And the sky .... The Negroes Where Dancing Little lover sittin' in the corner with a former member of the jets He would write a letter to the editor about the little holes .... The Night That Kenny Died He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by He kept his boogers in his desk he wore a neck tie .... The Rest Of The Dream You were a tiny spark Caught in your parents' eyes When they made love in the dark You were the big surprise And the old .... The River Knows Your Name Oh the river knows your name And your tears falling like the rain All around you suffering and pain Oh the river knows your name .... The Tiki Bar Is Open CHORUS: Thank God the tiki bar is open Thank God the tiki torch still shines Thank God the tiki bar is open Come on in .... The Usual I'm trippin over dumb drunks at a party Girlfriend just ran off with the DJ I give her everything, but she refused it It doesn't .... The Walking Dead It's that mechanical motion Skin -tight when the nights are bloodless Lip-sync the latest notion From zombie drill instructors Throw out of all the parties .... The Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrari Saturday night he comes home stinking sunday morning she wakes up thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking does she need to get the kids .... Thing Called Love Don't have to humble yourself to me I ain't your judge or your king And baby, you know you ain't no Queen of Sheba And .... Thirty Years Of Tears Is this a place I can rest my poor head To gather my thoughts in sweet silence Is this a place where the feelings aren't .... This Secret Life I dreamed I was being kept alive To bear the brunt of a family joke About which no one spoke To multiply and divide This .... Through Your Hands You were dreaming on a park bench 'Bout a broad highway somewhere When the music from the carillon Seemed to hurl your heart out there .... Tip Of My Tongue An empty house Is the only thing standin' Between our lives And the speed of sound Some words flew out And made a crash landin' .... Trudy And Dave Whatever you don't follow that shot, she rang those words out with all she got With a baby and the laundry in the Chevrolet, well .... Walk On Someone called out to you And it sounded just like crying On a street where nobody Even knows your name Your mind was getting high .... Warming Up To The Ice Age Baby shaved her head and gone Now she's got black stockings on I think she's warmin' up to the ice age Baby spreads her little .... Washable Ink Little girl playin' with the moonlight Shine it on me, shine it on me There's a cloud over my light and its troubling me, troubling .... What Do We Do Now? CHORUS: What do we do now What do we do now What do we do now What do we do now When it's lying there .... When We Ran Could have been the kiss of my life Could have been the death of me Could have been that I was just too scared To .... When You Hold Me Tight (let me hear ya get funky now) When your heart touches mine And my thoughts explode When our wires get crossed And the fire burns .... Whistles In My Ears Stumblin' down the road I gets to thinkin' as I leave her, I've left so many times before. That old north wind's a-blowin' circles round .... Wild Eyed Gypsies ??? Little money, Goin' down to Mexico. Take up with some crazy Spanish Lady. Listen to the old wind blow. She got earrings, And she .... Woman Sawed In Half She was a woman sawed in half It was done by a bad magician There was a point at which she just had to laugh .... Wrote It Down And Burned It There's a dead girl's body By the railroad track She's waiting for a train Jimmy left town like a fade to black In his Camero .... You Caught Me Laughin' We went to church last Sunday I held your little hand And we listened to the gospel Of an old time preachin' man In the .... You Must Go When that howling wind Comes to carry you again Just like your next of kin You must go To a far away place Where you .... You Used To Kiss The Girls I see you singing like a camera I see you staring from your mouth I see you spittin' out your algebra You think you've got .... You're My Love Interest Your hair is brown Your eyes are brown Your skin is white Two out of three OK with me Come over here tonight I believe, .... Your Dad Did Well the sun comes up and you stare your cup of coffee, yup Right through the kitchen floor You feel like hell so you might .... Your Love Is My Rest These are the words That cry out of me in the night Like a buffalo herd From a shotgun blast scattered in flight I got .... Zero House You took my pride and I want it back No more loving on the torture rack No more running when you call my name The .... Send "John Hiatt" Ringtones to your Cell |